Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
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31.3 U.S. Portraits, Women
Johnson’s paintings of women are often his best portraits, exhibiting a range of techniques and emphasizing their intelligent faces even when enwrapped in sumptuous fabrics, such as we see in Edwina Booth. —PH
Hills no. 31.3.53
Baur no. 262
Catharine Dusenbury Shelden
Philadelphia Museum of Art title: Portrait of Mrs. Allan Shelden
Alternate titles: Mrs. Allan Shelden; Portrait of a Lady
c.1885
Oil on canvas
36 1/4 x 30 1/8 in. (92.1 x 76.5 cm)
Initialed lower left: E.J.
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Provenance
Private collection (George Kriehn, agent), by August 1925
Exhibitions
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, An American Genre Painter: Eastman Johnson, 1824–1906, January 18, 1939–February 26, 1940. (Exhibition catalogue: Baur 1940), no. 262, as Mrs. Allan Shelden.
Harrisburg Art Association, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1940.
References
"Philadelphia Water Color Club Twenty-Sixth Annual Exhibition." American Magazine of Art (New York) (January 1929), as Portrait of a Lady.
Baur, John I. H. An American Genre Painter: Eastman Johnson, 1824–1906. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1940. Exhibition catalogue (1939 Brooklyn Museum), pp. 55, 72, no. 262, as Mrs. Allan Shelden.
Scott, Curtis R., Owen Hess Dugan, and John Paschetto, eds. Paintings from Europe and the Americas in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: A Concise Catalogue. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1994, p. 286.6
Hills Examination/Opinion
Examination date(s): 1984-11-29; Hills saw?
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Shelden, Catharine Butler Dusenbury
Biography:
Catharine Butler Dusenbury Shelden (1830–1916). Wife of Henry D. Shelden.
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Shelden, Catharine Butler Dusenbury
Keywords
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Record last updated July 29, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Catharine Dusenbury Shelden, c.1885 (Hills no. 31.3.53)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=760 (accessed on October 6, 2024).